"There are always big outside influences so we can't let them distract us," coach Grant Hastings says as the Rovers sit on 13 points, four rungs high from the bottom of the league ladder.
However, the 2012 league champions' game against the Mick Waitt-coached Olympic signals the start of the second round of the premier winter league.
A couple of steady performances, taking into account the permutations of other sides stumbling, will catapult the Rovers to clear third place below Olympic on 22 points and Miramar Rangers on 21.
Perhaps another way of looking at tomorrow's clash is that should Rovers win the boardroom battle on the Chatham Cup appeal then playing Olympic could also be an important dress rehearsal to play against the Wellingtonians who host Lower Hutt City on their "tupperware turf" in round four of the cup at Wakefield Park in a fortnight.
Wairarapa coach Phil Keinzley has told the Times-Age he isn't losing sleep over the Rovers' protest and his team will continue to prepare for the next cup assignment, away against Palmerston North Marist, with all the normal intensity.
"I don't want to argue his [Kaltack's] eligibility through the media, other than to say we did our homework and we are absolutely confident everything was in order," Keinzley said.
Watch that space on HB Today but for now, there's the more urgent matter for the Blues to fix the first-round 5-2 humiliation at Wakefield Park on April 6.
"Olympic hammered us in the first 20 minutes so we were 4-nil down.
"We conceded three sloppy goals to lose 5-2 so we were nowhere near good enough that day," Hastings says.
But that was then and tomorrow is another day with a Rovers outfit who have brushed aside the exodus of nine title-winning players from last winter to find a modicum of cohesiveness and mental fortitude to foot it with the bigger boys in the league.
Despite last Sunday's defeat to Wairarapa, Hastings took heart from his troops' ability to keep possession in an up-tempo style to feed the 18m box for scoring opportunities.
He argues it's pointless lining up the Bevins, Wilsons and Rodekas for target practice between the sticks.
"It wasn't a poor run of form from them but the fact that there was a quality keeper [Matt Borren] who was simply outstanding so, you know, that won't happen again."
In a similar vein, Hastings hasn't said boo to Rovers gloveman Jonty Underhill after the teenager's fumble-gifted Wairarapa a goal last Sunday.
"No one needs to remind and dwell on things that have already happened," he says, reiterating the youngster's confidence is up there and he'll grow from that experience.
"They'll focus on the good points so things they do poorly becomes my job to fix as the coach, not the team."
Hastings says hamstrung defender David Gearey is out tomorrow with Scott Henderson replacing him off the bench but he emphasises that doesn't mean there won't be any other changes in the playing squad.
He feels the Bluewater faithful should come in droves for tomorrow's game with his men playing an exciting brand of soccer.
"It'll just be another good winter's day so the weather won't be anything like what's hammering other parts of the country."
Olympic team manager Dave Graham will be the first to attest to the joys of playing at Park Island on account of the debris left on their artificial turf.
"We're always looking forward to the trip to Napier so hopefully we'll be returning from there with a smile on Sunday," Graham says with a laugh, admitting the winds here is something they will be familiar with.
"Over here our No 1 pitch is closed so there's trees and roofs flying off everywhere. We're always looking forward to travelling to Napier."
Olympic is mindful the Rovers will be a different team from the one they whipped in the opening round of the league.
"Napier are defending champions so they'll be fighting tooth and nail. We're prepared to be blown off their park," Graham says of the "Greeks" who possess a blend of youth and experience this season after a so-so winter last year.
"We always bat for each other and we're returning to the Olympic of old so we're turning over a new leaf."
Unlike Miramar striker Paul Ryder bagging goals, he says Olympic have a rash of players scoring goals.
Waitt, a former Rovers player and title-winning coach as well as ex-All Whites coach, enjoys returning to his old hunting ground, too.
